Apparatus for pressing cigars.



No. 694,082, Patented Fab. 25, I902.

B. WOERNER. APPARATUS FOR PRESSING CIGARS.

(Application filed Oct. 14, 1901.)

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No. 694.082. Patented Feb. 25, I902.

B. WOERNER. APPARATUS FOR PRESSING CIGARS.

LApplieatiun filed Oct. 14, 1901.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT WOERNER, OF MA NNHEIM, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR PRESSING CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,082, dated February 25, 1902. Application filed October 14, 1901. Serial No. 78,625. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT WOERNER, manufacturer, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Mannheim, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pressing Apparatus for Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved apparatus for pressing cigars previously to being packed. The devices which are used at present for the same purpose have the disadvantage that the cigars are injured by the apparatus while being pressed, so that the pressing has to be done very carefully, which requires much time.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of such pressing devices in such a manner that any number of cigars can be submitted to an equal pressure from all sides without any damage to the goods, even if submitted to a very high pressure.

In the accompanying drawings the improved pressing apparatus for cigars is shown, in Figure 1, in a perspective view. Fig. 2 is an end view of the apparatus, which is shown in Figs. 3 and 4 in cross and longitudinal sections, respectively. Fig. 5 is a view of the apparatus turned upside down to show how plates 14 and l are guided one upon the other.

The apparatus consists of four plates 1, 2, 3, and 4, the outer ends of which are bent at right angles and which are adj ustably connected with one another in a peculiar manner, hereinafter more fully described. The vertical part 5 of the lower bottom plate 2 has a slot 6 to receive the horizontal part 7 of the upper bottom plate 1, the vertical part 8 of which projects through a slot 9, provided in the horizontal part 10 of the top plate 4. The vertical part 5 of bottom plate 2 is somewhat smaller at the upper end and projects through a slot 12, arranged in the horizontal part 11 of the lower top plate 3. On the lower side of the upper bottom plate 1 a dovetailed projecting rib 15 is provided, which slides in a dovetailed groove 16 of the lower bottom plate 2.

To use the apparatus for pressing cigars be fore packing, the top plates 3 and 4 are removed and the bottom plates 1 and 2 adj usted to ofler the necessary space required by the quantity of cigars to be packed. The cigars are packed on the bottom plates between the vertical parts 5 and 8 of the same, a protecting-plate 13, Fig. 4, is placed on top of the cigars, and the top plates 3 and 4 are put in proper place, with the slots 12 and 9 over the vertical parts 5 and 8 of the bottom plates. The cigars contained in the apparatus may now be submitted in either vertical or horizontal direction to a pressure of any degree right angles, a slot in the vertical part of the lower bottom plate, to receive the inner end of the horizontal part of the upper bottom plate, a dovetailed projecting rib on the lower side of the upper bottom plate, a dovetailed groovein the lower bottom plate for the reception of the said projecting rib to prevent a sidewise displacement of these plates on one another, two top plates, the outer ends of which are bent downward at right angles, and two slots one in each horizontal part of the top plates for the reception of the vertical parts of the bottom plates substantiallyas described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB ADRIAN, PAUL HAY. 

